My experience is that a lot of the value in taking notes is NOT referring back to them later. Just the act of writing them down somehow forces me to remember more of what was covered. And, for reasons I don't understand, this works much better if I'm writing with pen and paper. Typing them doesn't have the same effect. Somewhat unfortunate, because writing them by hand makes them much less useful when I do need to re…
I don't know why you would be downvoted. I am the exact same way. I actually stopped taking legible notes and get the same results. As long as I jot something down on paper, I find I am more likely to remember it